University to Help Maximise Food Production
Post Brexit

The University of Hertfordshire has been awarded
a £400,000 research grant jointly with the Royal Veterinary College,
University of London, to help maximise food production
post Brexit.

The grant is to investigate how ruminant production, marketing
and policy systems can maximise quality food production and economic
viability, while promoting sustainable
land use and management
including environmental and antimicrobial stewardship.

The project, “Achieving sustainable UK beef and sheep production
and marketing systems in a changing environment”, is supported
by the Cadogan Charity and is being driven by the need to improve
the UK’s current beef and sheep systems to ensure that it is economically,
environmentally and socially sustainable.

Hertfordshire University will
work closely with farms and the food sector to identify strategies
and policies that provide reasonably priced products that are
profitable and equitable across the food value chain, post
Brexit.
This research is part of the University’s commitment to and investment
in Food Security research, as part of its Feed the World campaign.

Professor David Barling, Director of the Centre for Agriculture, Food
and Environmental Management and Principal Investigator on the project
at the University of Hertfordshire, said:
“This project is of major
strategic importance and we are delighted to have been awarded the
grant jointly with the Royal
Veterinary College. As part of our research,
we will investigate the impacts of beef and sheep production and marketing
systems in terms of environment, drug and chemical use, animal health
and welfare, economic efficiency as well as social welfare, with the
aim of making recommendations for policy change to support improved
systems.”